Could've easily been twice as long. The writer seems to be very much a part of these polite-nik times, and consequently invokes all the bugaboos which are supposed to willy-nilly give us the shudders: racism, sexism, homophobia, pedophiles and so forth (I'm surprised he wasn't able to throw smoking into the mix). In addition to a number of errors of fact I encountered along the way, there were (perhaps more importantly) errors of judgment. Thus, Ginzburg's accusations (circa 1960) of Fischer's anti-homosexual and misogynist stances were (frankly) simply not that abhorrent back then...whatever we are all inclined (with our no doubt much greater enlightenment now) to make of them these days. Also, Brady seems to be implying that the Soviets were cheating by going over the adjourned game with Botvinnik...whereas in fact everyone was allowed back then to colloborate on analyzing adjournments (the only thing that made it seem like cheating was that the Soviets were so much better back then than everyone else on the planet).